Several issues in fedora 11

rafael1122 · 07-07-2009, 10:05 AM

Hi all ,

i`m very new to fedora , to linux actually ...so forgive me if i sound little noobish

for some problems like this

Code:

r8169 : eth1 : link up

i couldn`t open fedora in a GUI...so i tired to open it
ALT + F4 and then log in ...and write "startx"

it came up with an error message

Code:

/usr/bin/X : error while loading shared libraries : libfreetype.so.6 : cannot open shared object file : no such file or directory

i figured out the it`s a freetype problem , so i tired to remove then re-install it again

so

Code:

yum remove freetype

the problem is...it asked me if i want to remove all programes using freetype...so stupid me said "yes"..
and yum removed Xorg..Gnome panels..even pidgin..and firefox...
it almost removed 75% of the system...

my question is ..
is there any way to RESTORE what yum removed without installing it one by one...?

or i just have to reinstall fedora again ?

watcher69b · 07-07-2009, 10:41 AM

mmmm if you have no data, reinstall using the defaults.

if you can access the internet do a yum install gnome
and it should do everything, package and dependencies,for you

in the future you can always do yum provides libfreetype.so.6 to find out more about the file/package...

good luck :-)

rafael1122 · 07-07-2009, 10:56 AM

Quote:

mmmm if you have no data, reinstall using the defaults.

if you can access the internet do a yum install gnome
and it should do everything, package and dependencies,for you

in the future you can always do yum provides libfreetype.so.6 to find out more about the file/package...

good luck :-)

i did "yum install gnome"
it gives me
"no package gnome available. "

i think i`m gonna reinstall the system again

but thx anyways

PTrenholme · 07-07-2009, 11:12 AM

It's a little late, but, if you'd looked at the yum manual page (man yum) you might have noticed the reinstall option which is, I think, what you wanted to do. As to installing gnome, you also might have noticed the groupinstall option for installing packages from a defined group.